Software Quality Engineer

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Responsible for ensuring that products meet design specifications and standards. This role develops new or refines existing processes related to quality control and project failure identification and design standards verification. This role evaluates and tests new or modified software programs and software development procedures used to verify the program function according to user requirements and conform to establishment guidelines.

Essential Job Duties

• Design test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures based on business requirements.
• Test any new software to ensure functional requirements, system compliance, and technical specifications.
• Perform quality assurance and testing in an environment that typically uses state-of-the-art software applications testing processes but may also include manual QA/Testing.
• Create test data files with valid and invalid records to thoroughly test program logic and verify system flow.
• Collaborate with users to plan user acceptance testing, alpha, and beta testing.
• Ensure that system tests are successfully completed and documented, and all problems are resolved.
• Contribute to standards and procedures for measuring product quality and release readiness.
• Create, maintain, and execute manual/exploratory test cases, and clearly document software defects.
• Identify and execute automation for common test cases.
• Review and provide feedback on product feature requirements.
• May develop, revise, and approve quality assurance and testing policies, standards, and procedures.
• Assume other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Not responsible for supervising employees.

Minimum Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3+ years of related experience in software quality assurance and testing of applications with significant size, scope, and complexity (i.e. Sales, Servicing, Finance, Billing, Applications, etc.).
• Experience using software packages or tools for processing and/or extracting data, such as SQL.

Preferred Requirements  

• Experience with APIs or SOAP UI.
• Experience with VBScript programming, or similar automation tools.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs.
• Demonstrate use of computer operations (programming, relational databases, and operating systems) and software packages.
• Regularly uses moderately complex oral and written skills. May train others in functional areas, interact with others and make presentations to department or middle management.
• Problems encountered are routine, somewhat repetitive and generally solved by following clear directions and procedures.
• Decisions generally affect own job or assigned functional area.
• Results are defined; sets personal own goals and determines how to achieve results with few or no guidelines to follow; supervisor/manager provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Handle multiple tasks or projects simultaneously with moderate complexity.
• No additional competencies required.

Essential Physical Demands/Work Environment  

• Work is primarily sedentary: must be able to sit for extended periods of time and use a computer, keyboard, and mouse, frequently.
• Travel may be required periodically, including overnight stays (contingent on position requirements).
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds

Benefits:

• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• 401k with Generous Company Match
• Company Paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
• Short Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts

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